tranquileye free media papers

By Dr Susan Forde, Dr Michael Meadows, Ms Kerrie Foxwell, Griffith University, Brisbane. Presented at Australian Broadcasting Authority Conference, ‘Radio, Television and the New Media’, Canberra, Australia, May 3-4, 2001.

Abstract: Towards the end of 1999, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, the Community Broadcasting Foundation and the Federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts helped fund a major project examining the current state and role of Australia's community broadcasting industry. Co-ordinated by researchers from Griffith University's Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, the project is the first comprehensive attempt to collate research on different aspects of the industry including training, use of new technologies, news services and of course, connections to communities served and/or participating in community broadcasting. The first component of the study, a survey of all community radio stations in Australia has been completed. This paper will focus on the data collected during this initial survey of 149 Community Radio Station Managers in Australia.